Diane Montagna | Jun 02, 2017 Posted on 06/02/2017 2:25:55 PM PDT by ebb tide
Diane Montagna | Jun 02, 2017
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has sent Muslims throughout the world a special message for Ramadan and for the feast of ‘Id al-Fitr, which this year falls around June 24.
The message, called ‘Christians and Muslims: Caring for our Common Home,’ is based on Pope Francis’ letter to all humanity on the need to care for the environment, Laudato Si’.
Issued by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, the message highlights Pope Francis’ call for a “global ecological conversion” to address what he calls the “ecological crisis” the world is currently facing.
The message to Muslims also repeats the pope’s invitation to “a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future,” asserting that “no one person, nation or people can impose exclusively their understanding of our planet.”
“As believers, our relationship with God should be increasingly shown in the way we relate to the world around us,” the president of the PCID, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, said in the letter.
“May the religious insights and blessings that flow from fasting, prayer and good works sustain you, with God’s help, on the path of peace and goodness, to care for all the members of the human family and for the whole of creation,” he said.
Here below is the full English text of the message, ‘Christians and Muslims: Caring for our Common Home.’
Christians and Muslims:
Caring for our Common Home
Dear Muslim Brothers and Sisters,
We wish to assure you of our prayerful solidarity during this time of fasting in the month of Ramadan and the celebration of ‘Id al–Fitr that concludes it, and we extend to you our heartfelt best wishes for serenity, joy and abundant spiritual gifts.
This year’s Message is especially timely and significant: fifty years ago, in 1967, only three years after the establishment of this Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) by Pope Paul VI on 19 May 1964, the first Message was sent for this occasion.
In the years that have followed, two Messages have been particularly important: the Message of 1991, during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, entitled “The Path of Believers is the Way of Peace”, and the Message of 2013, in the first year of Pope Francis’ pontificate, entitled “Promoting Mutual Respect through Education”. Both Messages were signed by the Pontiffs.
Among the many activities of the PCID for promoting dialogue with Muslims, the most important and longstanding is this yearly Message for Ramadan and for ‘Id al-Fitr addressed to Muslims throughout the world. To share this Message in the widest way possible, the PCID is assisted by local Catholic communities, as well as Papal Representatives present in almost every country.
The experience of both our religious communities affirms the value of this Message for promoting cordial relations between Christian and Muslim neighbors and friends, by offering insights on current and pressing issues.
For this year, the PCID offers a theme related to Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter “Laudato Si’– On Care for Our Common Home”, which was addressed not only to Catholics and Christians, but to the whole of humanity.
Pope Francis draws attention to the harm our lifestyles and decisions are causing to the environment, to ourselves and to our fellow human beings. There are, for example, certain philosophical, religious, and cultural perspectives that present obstacles which threaten humanity’s relationship with nature. To take up this challenge involves all of us, regardless of whether or not we profess a religious belief.
The Encyclical’s title itself is expressive: the world is a “common home”, a dwelling for all the members of the human family. Therefore, no one person, nation or people can impose exclusively their understanding of our planet. This is why Pope Francis appeals “for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet…, since the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affects us all” (n. 14).
Pope Francis states that “the ecological crisis is also a summons to profound interior conversion” (no. 217). What is needed is education, spiritual openness and a “global ecological conversion” to adequately address this challenge. As believers, our relationship with God should be increasingly shown in the way we relate to the world around us.
Our vocation to be guardians of God’s handiwork is not optional, nor it is tangential to our religious commitment as Christians and Muslims: it is an essential part of it.
May the religious insights and blessings that flow from fasting, prayer and good works sustain you, with God’s help, on the path of peace and goodness, to care for all the members of the human family and for the whole of creation.
With these sentiments, we wish you once again serenity, joy and prosperity.
From the Vatican, 19 May 2017
Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran
President
Bishop Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.l.
Secretary
Words cannot begin to describe how out of touch with reality this Pope is...
Another piece of evidence liberals live in a alternate reality.
Pope Peronista I speaks.
Has this pope ever evidenced the slightest concern for Christians daily massacred by muslims, or black slaves daily taken in Africa by muslims?
Has he ever said a single word about either of those 2 daily events?
Eco-friendly explosives?
Sheesh.
5.56mm
Could have invited them to believe in Christ for their eternal lives. But no. Gaia more important than Jesus!
Green bombs!!
Why isn’t he calling on them to accept Christ as their savior?
Isn’t that what he was elevated to this position to do...win souls to Christ?
This is like Obama calling Memorial Day a day to volunteer in your community.
islamist facilitator
Oh yeah. Muftis&Muslims have been working on ‘climate change’ globally for over a thousand years.
He wants them to use clean-burning accelerants when they immolate people?
I can't believe the Catholic Hierarchy doesn't know what the fundamentals of Islam are, and waste their time with this feel good pablum. - Tom
Gee...no mention of the Christian genocide in the Middle. East perpetrated by Islam’s
Galatians 1:6-8 -- "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Let him be accursed.
What a fool. Telling people who live in the seventh century that they need to be green
Would you give me that again?
Not sure I caught your meaning.
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